useless trivia: What Word Means: To Tamp - To Enclose In A Kiln?

Questions

one who fought professionally in roman arenas was a ______?

what comedy team first appeared in "one night in the tropics"?

who recorded the 1960 hit song "walk, don't run"?

who was the first king of israel?

what hymn was written by julia howe to the tune of john brown's body?